KSnapshot is a simple applet for taking screenshots. It is capable of capturing images of either the whole desktop, or just a single window. The images can then be saved, or passed to another application using drag and drop.

KSnapshot is a screenshot application for the KDEdesktop environment that was created by Richard J. Moore, Matthias Ettrich and Aaron J. Seigo in Qt and C++.

KSnapshot allows users to use hotkeys to take a screenshot of the entire screen, a selected portion, one window or just one part of a window. Users then have the choice to save the screenshot in a variety of formats, copy it to the clipboard or directly open it with any program that is associated with image files.